Let’s Agree on Poland: Negotiating a Constitutional Settlement in a Deeply Polarized Society Lunch Talk with Lukasz Rozdeiczer

This event examines the process and core ideas behind Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), a real-world negotiation experiment conducted under conditions of extreme political polarization. Emerging from a multi-year, facilitated process involving more than 130 public intellectuals across deep ideological divides, the project used interest-based bargaining, mutual-gains approaches, and structured dialogue to move participants beyond positional politics toward shared interests, common commitments, and workable institutional compromises. The book proposes a novel constitutional framework for Poland aimed at supporting productive negotiations across multiple levels of governance, outlining institutional design elements to foster dialogue across political divides at national, regional, and local levels. In this session, three co-authors representing liberal, progressive, and conservative perspectives will reflect on their firsthand experience of negotiating constitutional proposals across ideological lines, illustrating how negotiation theory, structured dialogue, and institutional design can help societies manage conflict and build durable democratic arrangements.

Boxed lunches will be available for attendees. Please note: space is limited, if you are interested in joining, please contact Riley Scheuritzel (rscheuritzel@law.harvard.edu) no later than March 16^th, 2026 to reserve your space for this event.

Anna Wojciuk is an Associate Professor of international relations and comparative politics at the University of Warsaw and co‑founder and President of the Association Inkubator Umowy Społecznej, which led the cross‑ideological negotiation process behind *Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design* (OUP, 2025). She has held visiting positions at Harvard, Columbia, the European University Institute, and Cornell, and her work has appeared in leading journals such as *Political Geography* and *Review of International Studies*. She is also the author of *Empires of Knowledge* (Routledge, 2018) and a regular commentator on democratic backsliding and right‑wing populism in outlets including *Foreign Policy*, *Politico*, *Haaretz*, and *Project Syndicate*.

Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Management at the Warsaw University of Technology and Vice-President of the Social Contract Incubator (Inkubator Umowy Społecznej, IUS). Her research examines governance, strategic coordination, and innovation in complex systems, with a focus on how institutions can enable effective collective action under uncertainty. A former Undersecretary of State in the Polish Ministry of National Education (2006–2007), she negotiated education reforms in a highly polarized environment. As a co-author of Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), she helped lead IUS’s multi-year, cross-ideological negotiation process and advocates a citizen-friendship-driven approach to democracy and constitutional design.

Łukasz Rozdeiczer is an attorney, negotiator, mediator, and manager specializing in complex negotiations and corporate, construction, and energy disputes, admitted to practice in New York, England and Wales, and Poland. He has represented the Polish government and multinational corporations in matters exceeding USD 30 billion and serves as president of the BATNA Group and Country Manager for Poland at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. An Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, he has taught negotiation and dispute resolution at leading universities and previously worked with the Harvard Program on Negotiation, the World Bank, and the Polish Chamber of Commerce. He sits on several NGO boards, including the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, and is a council member of the Social Contract Incubator and co-author of Let’s Agree on Poland.